Affluent boroughs show fastest rise in teenage pregnancy

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SHIRE authorities and London suburbs top the league table for areas where teenage pregnancies are increasing fastest, according to government figures. Teenage pregnancy hotspots are to be targeted by ministers as part of wideranging measures to tackle social exclusion announced yesterday.

But while socially deprived areas still record some of the highest rates in England, the councils showing the biggest increases in conception rates in girls under 18 are outer London boroughs, and more affluent areas such as Windsor, Torbay and Oxfordshire.

Teenage conception rates have been dropping overall, but the latest tables show that since 1984 rates have risen